Implementing CISA’s SCuBA Project In Your Cloud

This blog post outlines two Microsoft configuration baseline documents that CISA published and introduces an automated assessment tool called ScubaGear to analyze GWS tenant configurations against these baselines.

Evolve Your Cloud Vendor Management Program

Managing cloud vendors requires more than just contract oversight—it’s about building strategic partnerships that ensure security, compliance, and cost efficiency. Learn how to evolve your vendor management approach to align with business goals and mitigate risks.

Improving Cloud Security Policies

Improving Cloud Security Policies Our Strategic Advisors find a consistent gap when reviewing our customers’ security policies: a lack of focus on cloud computing. Even in organizations with many traditional policy documents, there’s a lag in updating them for cloud technologies like Microsoft 365. Additionally, the gap widens when it comes to documenting the standard […]

The People Benefit of the Cloud: Retain Your Talent!

The People Benefit of the Cloud: Retain Your Talent! In recent posts, I have written about how the cloud benefitted my former organizations (in general and financially).  The most important asset I had as an IT leader, though, was our people.  Keeping them happy was paramount, and especially so in today’s technology job market.  Here, […]

An AEC CIO’s Paradigm Shift to the Cloud

An AEC CIO’s Paradigm Shift to the Cloud Reflecting on my 19-year career as CIO for a top Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) firm, it was sometime around 2015 where my mindset shifted to cloud first. Leading a technology organization in a growing and progressive AEC company, I recognized that numerous things had changed, and […]

The Cloud for Non-Profits

The Cloud for Non-Profits Tech for Social Impact Microsoft Tech for Social Impact (TSI) presented its vision for the Microsoft Cloud for Non-Profits March 30, 2021. It is designed as an affordable solution for non-profits that covers a broad range of needs common to non-profits. The Cloud for Non-Profits leverages the Non-Profit Common Data Model […]

What to Use When: Microsoft Cloud File Storage Services

What to Use When: Microsoft Cloud File Storage Services With Innovation Comes Choice (and Confusion!) There are several options to migrate data from on-premises file shares and hard drives. The Modern Practices for File Management in the Cloud are as Follows: Personal files, like those stored in someone’s H: (home) or hard drive, migrate to […]